Election Tourism

There is almost nothing the jugaad-minded desi cannot monetize. The election jamboree is apparently the next tourist attraction. If things cannot change for the better, might as well make some money along the way. 

Given a lemon the enterprising desi will not rest at making lemonade out of it, they will do better and produce a limoncello cake out of and sell it to the very person who handed them the lemon in the first place. Got to give credit where it is due. The value proposition of the desi election tourism is explained thusly:

While our tourists get to see the largest democracy in action and sometimes, ride with politicians in their jeeps or experience flower showers, the politicians also appreciate having foreigners in their rallies.” Election Tourism offers various packages across India(‘Northeast Egalitarianism’, ‘Maharashtra Political Tour’, the ‘Liberal Government of Gujarat’ which is honestly WTF and LOL at the same time).

It is unlikely that Manish Sharma, chairman of Election Tourism India, (a project by a private tour company based out of Ahmedabad in Gujarat), is being even remotely ironic. He tells it just like it is. Only in India are such things possible. I wonder if as the logical next step from here, these tourists can get to experience voting by proxy in Indian elections as well. In the least they could pay and bet on outcomes they may want to see.